====== Mercyverse Businesses ======
This is a quick list of the all identified businesses in the Mercyverse. Major businesses have links that will lead to 
individual pages with expanded details 

===== How to Read the Format: =====

**Name**: Alphabetical \\
**IA**: Initial Appearance or Mention (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.\\
**Location**:\\
**Employer** - Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details. \\ 
**Employees** - Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details. \\ 
**Business Description **
  * Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation

====== Major Mercyverse Businesses ======
===== Mercy Thompson Series =====
====Hauptman Security====
[[Hauptman Security]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**:\\

**Employer**: [[Adam Hauptman]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Jim Gutstein]]
  * 
**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * keeping the humans ignorant of the magic that lives among them is a specialized and lucrative business
[[Silence Fallen]]
  * the firm had two or three charter companies that they used<sup>114</sup>
  * 
====Mercy's Garage====
[[Mercy's Garage]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Kennewick, Washington]]

**Employer**: [[Mercy Thompson]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Alan MacKenzie Frazier]] **Deceased**
  * [[Gabriel Sandoval]]
  * [[Sylvia Sandoval]]
  * [[Tad Adelbertsmiter]]
  * [[Zee Adelbertsmiter]]

**Business Description**:\\
  * a one-woman garage; Volkswagen mechanic; anything German-made

====Mercy's Side Hustle====
[[Mercy's Side Hustle]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Kennewick, Washington]]

**Employer**: [[Mercy Thompson]]\\
**Employees**
  * 

**Business Description**:\\
  * 

===== Alpha & Omega Series =====

====Aspen Creek, Inc ====
Aspen Creek, Inc  |  \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: N/A, Colorado\\
**Employer**: [[Bran Cornick]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Charles Cornick]]
  * [[Leah Cornick]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * Alphas meet twice a year at the Colorado headquarters
  * sometimes with their second and third

[[Fair Game]]
  * had condos all over the place; Boston being one<sup>71</sup>
  * made travel more discreet<sup>71</sup>


====== Minor Mercyverse Businesses ======

===== A =====
====Angel Hills Assisted Living====
Angel Hills Assisted Living \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]]\\
**Location**: Yreka, California\\

**Employer**: [[Cathy Hardesty (Mother)]] & [[Cathy Hardesty]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Angel Hills Receptionist]]\\
  * [[Letty]] \\
  * [[Mary Frank]] \\
  * [[Sheldon Underwood (Dr.)]]\\

**Business Description**\\
[[Wild Sign]]
  * doesn't have a website or much information on the Internet<sup>190</sup>
  * hill country; four miles since seeing the last house
  * topped a rise and abruptly in the tamed greenness of a well-tended landscape; two rows of trees lined a white vinyl fence line on either side of the suddenly paved road<sup>190</sup>
  * the road curved gently up to an opening in the high stone wall that surrounded the facility<sup>190</sup>
  * an elegant, if large, brass sign on the metal gates<sup>190</sup>
  * prosaic parking lot laid out before a large, graceful building that looked very much like a high-end private hospital or school; a very tall stone wall spread out from either side of the building and swept behind it, encasing something very securely<sup>190</sup>
  * an extra bump on the bottom side of the post that arched over to hold the light—camera<sup>192</sup>
  * most of the windows were the kind with a metal mesh embedded in the glass<sup>192</sup>
  * the isolation of the place made it feel more like a prison than a place of healing; that and the surveillance equipment and escape-proof windows<sup>193</sup>
  * the glass-and-bronze entry would have done credit to a high-end hotel; imposing reception desk<sup>193</sup>
  * a too-shiny-floored hall full of oversized solid-looking doors, most of which had dead bolts that locked patients inside<sup>194</sup>
  * gardens were lower than the building; five or six acres, completely enclosed by a ten-foot wall; hedges and the natural rise and fall of the land had been utilized to create small pockets of privacy<sup>195</sup>
  * in the center of the garden was a good-sized water feature with a waterfall on one end and a natural-looking on the other end<sup>195</sup>
  * the aura of the garden was very soothing; perhaps too soothing<sup>195</sup>
  * around the hedges an own steep flagstone steps<sup>196</sup>
  * a seating area overlooked the pond side of the water feature; stone benches edged the concrete platform; a scattering of low fountains burbled around the edge of the pond<sup>197</sup>
  * witch prison<sup>203</sup>
  * torturing the old and infirm for magical power<sup>206</sup>
  * second-floor offices<sup>215</sup>

====Aspen Creek Craft Store====
Aspen Creek Craft Store \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Aspen Creek, Montana]]\\

**Employer**: [[Mundane (2) Craft Store]]\\
**Employees**
  * Owner/Operators

**Business Description**\\
[[Dead Heat]]
  * little craft store<sup>125</sup>
  * one of the people who kept the store gives weekly quilting lessons to Anna<sup>125</sup>

====Aspen Creek Gas Station/Post Office====
Aspen Creek Gas Station/Post Office \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Aspen Creek, Montana]]\\

**Employer**: [[Werewolf Store]] [[Werewolf Store (Wife)]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Aspen Creek Young Man]]\\
  * 
**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * sells breakfast burritos; hot if not tasty

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * sells candy 

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * sells mediocre sandwiches

====Aspen Creek Medical Clinic====
Aspen Creek Medical Clinic \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: Aspen Creek, Montana\\
**Employer**: \\
**Employees**
  * [[Samuel Cornick]]
**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * has a clinic<sup>91</sup>
  * where Charles took Mac's body
  * Samuel was working at a clinic in rotation with three other doctors

====Aspen Creek Motel====
Aspen Creek Motel \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Aspen Creek, Montana]]

**Employer**: [[Carl Stoval]]&[[Lisa Stoval]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Marlie]]
  * [[Mercy Thompson]] | Previous

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
The Aspen Creek Motel

Owner/Operator | See Carl Stoval and Lisa Stoval
The old motel was built the way the motor hotels had been in the middle of the last century--a long, narrow, and no-frills building designed so guests could park their vehicles in front of their rooms.MC-79
had been run-down 1950's tacky; updated now to a rustic charm
room #18 is on the side away from the road and as far away from #1 as it getsMC-83
except for number one, there are only three different locks for all the roomsMC-83
number one was the Marrok's safe room, specially designed to contain uncooperative werewolvesMC-72
has a reinforced metal doorMC-73
has a dead bolt operated by key from both sides; windows are barred; the vents sealedMC-75
number one served as a prison and hospital on occasion: sometimes bothMC-75
a bed and a nightstand permanently fixed against the wallMC-73

====Aspen Creek Veterinarian Clinic====
Aspen Creek Veterinarian Clinic \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Aspen Creek, Montana]]\\

**Employer**: [[Carter Wallace]] **Deceased** \\
**Employees**
  * 
  * 
**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * didn't usually treat werewolves; dogs, cats, and livestock enough to keep him busy

===== B =====
====Bonarata, Inc====
Bonarata Corporations \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]]\\
**Location**: [[Milan, Italy]]\\

**Employer**: [[Jacob Bonarata]]\\
**Employees**
  * 
**Business Description**\\
[[Silence Fallen]]
  * has spider silk throughout the world
  * owns corporations based in New York, Texas, Buenos Aires and Hong Kong

====Brooks, Gordon, and Howe, Attorneys at Law====
Brooks, Gordon, and Howe, Attorneys at Law\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: Kennewick, Washington\\

**Employer**: [[Kyle Brooks]] [[Gordon (Lawyer)]] [[Howe (Lawyer)]]\\
**Employees**
  * 
**Business Description**\\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * works with two other lawyers and has an efficient staff<sup>56</sup>
  * has a luxurious office suite on Clearwater Avenue<sup>58</sup>


===== C ===== 
====Charter Air Company|Aspen Creek====
Charter Air Company|Aspen Creek \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]]\\
**Location**: [[Aspen Creek, Montana]] \\

**Employer**: Aspen Creek, Inc \\
**Employees**
  * [[Hank]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Bran and Charles can both pilot
  * little, six-passenger, twin-engine Lear; 
  * itty-bitty landing strip
  * hangar big enough to hold two planes the same size
  * other than the hangar, airstrip, there was virtually no sign of civilization; there was the smell of woodsmoke so it couldn't be as isolated as it looked
  * 

====Charter Air Company|Goblin====
Charter Air Company|Goblin \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]]\\
**Location**: N/A, Northern California\\

**Employer**: [[Austin Harris]]: Owner|Operator \\
**Employees**
  * [[Matt Smith]]
  * Five employees<sup>128</sup>

**Business Description**\\
[[Silence Fallen]]
  * a small firm
  * has five people who can fly from the US to Europe; four of them are humans; one werewolf<sup>128</sup>

====Christiansen Merc Group====
Christiansen Merc Group \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: Chicago, Illinois\\

**Employer**: [[David Christiansen]] \\
**Employees**
  * [[Connor Christiansen]]
  * [[John-Julian Christiansen]]
  * [[Shawn]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * David started his own troop after being recruited by a military buddy for his mercenary troop; tired of taking orders
  * decided to quit fighting other people's wars when his grandsons resigned their commissions and joined  
  * specialize in extracting kidnapped victims: businessmen, Red Cross, missionaries; get them out of the hands of terrorists

====Columbia Basin Pack Accountant====
[[Columbia Basin Pack]] Accountant\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]]\\
**Location**: Kennewick, Washington\\

**Employer**: [[Adam Hauptman]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Lucia Arocha]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Fire Touched]]
  * Lucia took over the accounting for the pack from Adam's business's accountant<sup>06</sup>
  * part of the budget brigade; [[Adam Hauptman]] [[Darryl Zao]] [[Zack Drummond]]<sup>06</sup>
  * discuss pack budget and make plans for the next six months<sup>06</sup>
  * pack has money for investments<sup>06</sup>
  * Lucia not quite comfortable enough with werewolves to argue with them<sup>06</sup>

===== D =====
====Deer Lodge Hotel====
Deer Lodge Hotel \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #5: [[Burn Bright]]\\
**Location**: Deer Lodge, Montana\\

**Employer**: N/A\\
**Employees**
  * N/A
**Business Description**\\
[[Burn Bright]]
  * not happy taking cash<sup>301</sup>
  * water was hot and the sheets were clean<sup>302</sup>
  * [[Sage Carhardt]] was a guest<sup>301</sup>

====Dog Breeder====
Dog Breeder \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Aspen Creek, Montana]]\\

**Employer**: [[George Brown]]\\
**Employees**
  * three or four people

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * breeds and crossbreeds; Irish Wolfhounds and English Mastiffs
  * breeding very large dogs to explain away odd tracks and sightings
  * won several national titles with his Mastiffs
[[Night Broken]]
  * breeds all sorts of big dogs; mastiffs were mostly big sweeties<sup>96</sup>

===== E =====
===== F =====
===== G =====
===== H =====
====Happy Camp Mini Storage====
Happy Camp Mini Storage \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]]\\
**Location**:Happy Camp, California\\

**Employer**: \\
**Employees**
  * 

**Business Description**\\
[[Wild Sign]]


====Hickman Construction====
Hickman Construction \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Blood Bound]]\\
**Location**:N/A, Washington\\

**Employer**: Boss Hickman\\
**Employees**
  * [[Mundane (2) Hickman Construction]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Blood Bound]]

====High-Tech Company====
High-Tech Company \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #2: [[Hunting Ground]]\\
**Location**:Seattle, Washington\\

**Employer**: Angus Hopper\\
**Employees**

**Business Description**\\
[[Hunting Ground]]
  * they put together programs to keep other companies running
  * the company owns an apartment
  * facilities used by the wolf conference

====Horse Breeders|Koch====
Horse Breeders Koch \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]\\
**Location**:Phoenix, Arizona\\

**Employer**: Koch Family\\
**Employees**
  * [[Walter Koch]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Dead Heat]]

====Horse Breeders|Sani====
Horse Breeders Sani \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]\\
**Location**:Phoenix, Arizona\\

**Employer**: [[Hosteen Sani]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Kage Sani]]
  * [[Mateo]]
  * [[Morales]]
  * [[Teri]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Dead Heat]]
  * do the whole thing: breed, train, show<sup>103</sup>
  * lots of people on the payroll, but they're diversified<sup>103</sup>
  * Hosteen thinks too much specialization is bad for business<sup>103</sup>
  * Hosteen would always run the business; never grow old<sup>103</sup>
  * train our horses but they train other people's horses as well<sup>103</sup>

====Horse Ranch====
Horse Ranch \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Hollow]]\\
**Location**:N/A, Montana\\

**Employer**: N/A\\
**Employees**
  * [[Gary Laughingdog]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Hollow]]
  * raise quarter horses, a few Appaloosas, and cattle<sup>409</sup>
  * horse training<sup>409</sup>
  * driven by the market; not a lot of profit in breeding horses anymore, and the ranch has no choice but to listen to market forces if they want to survive<sup>409</sup>

===== I =====
====Intrasity Living====
Intrasity Living\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]]\\
**Location**: Kennewick, Washington\\

**Employer**: [[Tracy LaBelle]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Izzy's Mom]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Fire Touched]]
  * MLM: multilevel marketing company<sup>09</sup>
  * sells vitamins, makeup and essential oils
  * vitamins are certified by two independent laboratories as toxin-and allergen-free<sup>09</sup>
  * has a product to cover up scars<sup>10</sup>
  * "natural" and "herbal" products <sup>10</sup>
  * essential oil samples; stored in a teal box about the size of a loaf of bread with metallic embossed lettering "Instrasity" and "Living Essentials" that chased each other around the box in lovely calligraphic script<sup>11</sup>
  * most of the essential oils are just one—lavender, jasmine, lemon, orange
  * orange oil; smelled really good and supposed to promote calmness; works in cookies and brownies<sup>17</sup>
  * combination oils are more useful; blends are carefully measures for the best effect<sup>13</sup>
  * "Gaia's Blessing": peppermint oil with lavender, rosemary and eucalyptus, all natural oils blended together<sup>12</sup>
  * "Healing Touch": Vitamin E with tea tree oil and lavender; works for jock itch, ringworm, psoriasis and acne<sup>12</sup>
  * "Good Vibrations": rose oil with lavender, lemon and mint: elevates mood and makes your life go a little smoother<sup>14</sup>
  * Unnamed ;guaranteed to improve your love life or your money back<sup>14</sup>
  * "Rest Well": St. John's wort with lavender and orange; anti-nudge, not quite chemical castration but it will bring your life back into balance<sup>15</sup>
  * offered 10 percent discount for names and numbers of friends<sup>16</sup>

====Irish Wolfhound====
The Irish Wolfhound \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #3: [[Fair Game]]\\
**Location**: Boston, Massachusetts\\

**Employer**: [[Olde Towne Pack]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Wolfhound Manager]]
  * [[Wolfhound Hostess]]
  * [[Wolfhound Waitress]]
  * [[Wolfhound (3) Servers]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Fair Game]]
  * good fish and chips<sup>79</sup>
  * a big room for parties<sup>225</sup>
  * just inside the door lurked a life-sized, wooden Irish wolfhound; around it's neck was a sign that read WELCOME FRIEND<sup>227</sup>
  * a rough-sawn wooden staircase; at the top of the stairs, just past the restrooms, was a door marked for private parties<sup>227</sup>
  * through the door was a big room with four trestle tables with chairs and benches mixed in<sup>227</sup>
  * Celtic music filtered in through speakers in the ceiling
  * specialty is bangers and mash

===== J =====
===== K =====
===== L =====
====Laundromat|Butte====
Butte Laundromat \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]]\\
**Location**: Butte, Montana\\

**Employer**: [[Hao Xun]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Thomas Hao]] \\

**Business Description**\\
[[Fairy Gifts]]

===== M =====
====Medical Clinic|Texas====
Medical Clinic \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: N/A, Texas\\

**Employer**: [[Samuel Cornick]]\\
**Employees**
  * N/A
**Business Description:**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * Samuel set up a medical clinic; came back to his pack about two years before the start of [[Moon Called]]

===== N =====
====Nite Owl Motel====
Nite Owl Motel
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]]\\
**Location**: East Pasco, Washington\\

**Employer**: N/A
**Employees**
  * N/A 

**Business Description**\\
[[Night Broken]]
  * Tri-Cities doesn't have really dangerous neighborhoods, but east Pasco comes close<sup>57</sup>
  * motel one of those old ones with little rooms that opened out onto the parking lot; the kind they don't build anymore because they aren't really safe<sup>57</sup>
  * weak yellow illumination of the motel's parking-lot lights<sup>58</sup>
  * odorous motel rooms<sup>62</sup>
  * [[Warren Smith]] and [[Zack Drummond]] have both stayed there<sup>65</sup>

===== O =====
====Old Town Bakery====
[[Old Town Bakery]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]]\\
**Location**: Prague, Czechia\\

**Employer**: [[Libor]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Werewolf Baker]] \\
  * [[Bakery Server]] \\
  * [[Bakery Waitstaff]]\\

**Business Description**\\
[[Silence Fallen]]
  * 

====Opium Den====
[[Opium Den]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]]\\
**Location**: Butte, Montana\\

**Employer**: [[Hao Xun]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Thomas Hao]] \\

**Business Description**\\
[[Fairy Gifts]]
===== P =====

====Pacific Northwest Laboratories====
[[Pacific Northwest Laboratories]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: Richland, Washington\\

**Employer**: US Government\\
**Employees**
  * [[Darryl Zao]] | Ph.D. Engineer \\

**Business Description**:\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * working on a government hush-hush project

====Pasco Hotel====
Pasco Hotel 
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]]\\
**Location**:\\

**Employer**:\\
**Employees**
  * Unordered List Item
**Business Description**:\\

====Pasco Wrecking Yard====
Pasco Wrecking Yard\\ 
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]]\\
**Location**: Pasco, Washington\\

**Employer**: N/A
**Employees**
  * 
  * 

**Business Description**\\
[[Frost Burned]]


====Pawnshop====
Pawnshop  
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: Kennewick, Washington\\

**Employer**:N/A\\
**Employees**
  * [[Tony Montenegro]] | Undercover Cop

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * had the nearest soft drink machine
  * Tony ran the business as an undercover cop; low-key, cheerful, middle-aged man
  * passed on to different hands after Tony's tenure

====Plumbing Contractor====
Plumbing Contractor \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]]\\
**Location**: N/A, Washington\\

**Employer**:[[Peter Jorgenson]]
**Employees**
  * [[Honey Jorgenson]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Blood Bound]]

===== Q =====
===== R =====
====Real Estate Company====
Real Estate Company \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: N/A, Washington\\

**Employer**: \\
**Employees**
  * [[John Cavanaugh]] **Deceased** 

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * Realtor's sign on a tree farm proclaiming it sold

====Restaurant|Greek====
Restaurant|Greek \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #0.5: [[Alpha & Omega Novella]]\\
**Location**: Chicago, Illinois\\

**Employer**: [[George (A)]] [[George (A) Wife]]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Phillip]]
  * [[Greek Restaurant (2+) Servers]]
  * [[George (A) Daughter]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Alpha & Omega Novella]]
  * a little Greek place tucked in the shadow of the L train tracks
  * public seating; has private room with only one table

====Restaurant|Park====
Restaurant|Park \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #0.5: [[Alpha & Omega Novella]]\\
**Location**: Chicago, Illinois \\

**Employer**: N/A\\
**Employees**

**Business Description**\\
[[Alpha & Omega Novella]]
  * near a park, one of the forest preserves

====Richland High School====
Richland High School 
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]]\\
**Location**: Richland, Washington\\

**Employer**: Richland Board of Education\\
**Employees**
  * Aurielle Zao | Chemistry teacher
**Business Description**:\\
  * educating the youth of the Tri-Cities

===== S =====
====Sales Trainer====
Sales Trainer \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]\\
**Location**: Phoenix, Arizona\\

**Employer**: [[Chelsea Sani]] + [[Chelsea Sani Partner]]\\
**Employees**

**Business Description**\\
[[Dead Heat]]
  * trains people to sell things<sup>63</sup>
  * a company that sells that training to other companies<sup>63</sup>
  * lots of companies hire them<sup>63</sup>

====Sasquatch Express-O====
Sasquatch Express-O \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]]\\
**Location**: Happy Camp, California\\

**Employer**: [[Dana]]\\
**Employees**
  

**Business Description**\\
[[Wild Sign]]
  * far side of town<sup>174</sup>
  * in a little hut<sup>174</sup>
  * one of those miniature house-looking places; covered with cedar shake shingles that made it look vaguely hariy<sup>176</sup>
  * set up as a drive-through; when closed the car lane had an A-frame signboard blocking it that read //Sasquatch hunting. Back at 4 p.m. so you can be up all night.//<sup>176</sup>
  * closes from two to four<sup>178</sup>
  * two metal picnic tables between the coffee shop and the snow cone stand<sup>176</sup>
  * parking lot beside the coffee shop<sup>176</sup>

====Scorci's====
Scorci's \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #0.5: [[Alpha & Omega Novella]]\\
**Location**: Chicago, Illinois \\

**Employer**: [[Tim]\\
**Employees**
  * [[Anna Cornick]] | Previous

**Business Description**\\
[[Alpha & Omega Novella]]
  * Italian restaurant; best Italian restaurant in Chicago; best gnocchi in Chicago
  * boss wouldn't let servers work more than fifty hours a week; free meal each shift

====Snow Cone Stand====
Snow Cone Stand \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]]\\
**Location**:Happy Camp, California\\

**Employer**: N/A\\
**Employees**
  * [[Zander Fernwood]] **Deceased** \\

**Business Description**\\
[[Wild Sign]]
  * two metal picnic tables between the Sasquatch Express-O and the snow cone stand<sup>176</sup>
  * the stand itself was a ridiculous thing<sup>176</sup>
  * the functional part, a circular workstation about six feet in diameter, was covered with a cone-shaped plastic top painted a bright rainbow of color<sup>176</sup>
  * supposed to look like a snow cone; or maybe an ice cream cone<sup>176</sup>
  * a cardboard sign duct-taped to the side listed the prices for small and large cones in wide black Sharpie written in an even and readable hand<sup>176</sup>
  * parking lot beside the coffee shop<sup>176</sup>

====Stop and Rob====
Stop and Rob \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: Finley, Washington\\

**Employer**: [[Stop and Rob Owner]]
**Employees**
  * [[Samuel Cornick]]
  * [[Stop and Rob Clerk]]
  * [[Warren Smith]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * 24/7 gas station and convenience store
  * small office at the back of the store
[[Silence Fallen]]
  *couple of miles from [[Adam Hauptman House]]
  *ten miles closer to home than any other store that was open late

===== T =====
====Tow Truck Service====
Tow Truck Service\\ 
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]]\\
**Location**: \\

**Employer**: [[Dale]] [[Dale Wife]]
**Employees**
  * Owner/Operator

**Business Description**\\
[[Frost Burned]]

====Trading Post====
Trading Post\\ 
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]]\\
**Location**: Hour Outside Yreka, California\\

**Employer**: [[Ford]]
**Employees**
  * [[Trading Post Server]]
 
**Business Description**\\
[[Wild Sign]]
  * just off the highway to Yreka, looked to be a gas station; all but buried in trees<sup>64</sup>
  * gravel parking lot; battered, flat-roofed building sported a ruff of cedar shakes like a tonsured monk on top; cheap paneling everywhere else<sup>64</sup>
  * siding was painted a blue that had once been dark but had faded to a blue gray<sup>64</sup>
  * pair of old gas pumps out front wrapped in battered yellow caution tape; indicating that part of the business was no longer in service<sup>64</sup>
  * lighted beer signs in the small dirty windows obscured what lay beyond<sup>65</sup>
  * sometimes a bar<sup>65</sup>
  * river nearby<sup>65</sup>
  * a lot of things stuffed into one building<sup>66</sup>
  * carpet was threadbare, with the floorboards peeking through here and there<sup>67</sup>
  * four card tables, of the folding sort, were squished together in one corner with stacking chairs<sup>67</sup>
  * half the space not dedicate to tables was stocked like a tiny grocery store, with refrigerated goods stored in a double-sided, glass-fronted fridge<sup>67</sup>
  * one of the walls consisted of a big walk-in freezer; a hand-lettered sign on the freezer door advertised locker space available above a price list for beef, pork, and venison sold in quarters, halves or whole<sup>67</sup>
  * remaining space was a very basic clothing store carrying jeans, blue T-shirts, a variety of flannel shirts and brown leather lace-up boots<sup>67</sup>
  * along the back wall, shelves offered enough ammunition to arm a good-sized militia<sup>67</sup>
  * in the corner next to the shelves was a huge old metal safe that looked very much like it belonged in a Hollywood Western-and-bank-robbery movei<sup>67</sup>
  * a door in the back leads outside; building has a service alcove<sup>68</sup> 
  * no cash register; mostly don't use cash<sup>74</sup>

====Tree Farm====
Tree Farm \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Benton City, Washington]]\\

**Employer**: Columbia Basin Vineyard
**Employees**
  * 
  * 
**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * nestled just south of Benton City a small town about twenty minutes outside of Richland
  * was closed; still acres of unharvested trees; maples, oaks and a few pine
  * has a huge pole building warehouse nestled well behind a manufactured home
  * sold and purchased by a local winery that intended to use the land to grow grapes in the coming spring
  * aluminum side of warehouse
  * interior of warehouse cavernous; filled with hundreds, maybe thousands of crates, pallet-sized with three-foot-tall plywood sides; warped by moisture and wear
  * crates stacked three high or racks that reached almost to the ceiling
  * smelled musty; there was a sprinkler system set up and drains on the floor
  * had a section for offices

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====Uncle Mike's Tavern====
Uncle Mike's Tavern 
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: \\

**Employer**: [[Uncle Mike]]
**Employees**
  * 
  * 

**Business Description**\\

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====Vampire Protection Racket====
Vampire Protection Racket 
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: Columbia Basin | Richland, Kennewick, and Pasco + Burbank and West Richland and smaller towns\\

**Employer**: [[Marsilia]]
**Employees**
  * [[Mid-Columbia Seethe]]

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * in the Columbia Basin every business the vampires considered under their jurisdiction (meaning anyone touched by the supernatural who was too powerless to stand against them) paid them protection money
  * just like the mod, the vampires only protect you from themselves

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====Westwood Dance Studio====
Westwood Dance Studio\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #3: [[Fair Game]]\\
**Location**: Westwood, Massachusetts\\

**Employer**: N/A
**Employees**

**Business Description**\\
[[Fair Game]]
  * established 2006
  * a polished floor; lingering scent of horses; originally a barn repurposed into a dance studio<sup>256/sup>
  * big open room; far end, on the short wall, a bench held a couple of pairs of slip on shoes and a belly-dancing belt<sup>256</sup>
  * next to the bench, one corner of the barn was closed off and a sign that read OFFICE hung on the door<sup>256</sup>
  * a wall of mirrors spanned the long side of the barn; a long brass bar, placed about three feet up and running the length of the mirrored surface<sup>256</sup>
  * ceiling had exposed rafters<sup>256</sup>
  * barn-turned-dance studio<sup>256</sup>
  * sign is near a bunch of lilac bushes<sup>268</sup>
  * walls are old two-by-twelve timbers<sup>271</sup>
  * floor was waxed and slippery<sup>273</sup>

====Witches-R-Us|Pacific Northwest====
Witches-R-Us  \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
**Location**: [[Tri-Cities, Washington]]+\\

**Employer**: [[Elizaveta Arkadyevna]]
**Employees**
  * [[Kikimora Family Witches]] **Deceased**
  * [[Nadia Popov]] **Deceased**
  * [[Robert Arkadyevna]] **Deceased**

**Business Description**\\
[[Moon Called]]
  * keeping mundane humans ignorant of the magic that lives among them; a specialized and lucrative business
  * works on retainer for Columbia Basin Pack

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